New campsite

The site of the former tent embassy is now surrounded by carnival rides put in place for the Paniyiri festival.

Security staff looked on as people camped by a fire at the new site.

It was a quiet morning at the new camp site, with a dozen protesters gathered around their sacred fire.

A spokesman for the group says morale remains high and they have been contacted by several law firms offering assistance.

Opposition leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says negotiations should have started sooner.

"Everybody has their right to their opinions but these are matters that the elders need to raise at length with the council," she said.

"Let's not forget that the park is a public place for all to enjoy."

'Legitimate' claim

Queensland historian Dr Ray Kerkhove says Aboriginal people should be allowed to camp in Musgrave Park as the Indigenous tent embassy was legitimate.

Dr Kerkhove says the park was part of a traditional camping ground that predates white settlement.

"There's pictures, there's engravings, there's a lot of documentary references by early settlers like Jase Melton and William Clarke that describe the camp extending to that area," he said.

"There was a large reserve there which got subdivided and subdivided, and that's the reason Aboriginal people have come back there again and again.

"It was obviously there before settlement and this is the point I wanted to make - is that when people are saying 'oh, they're squatting there' and all this, in fact if anyone is squatting it's us - the white people.

"A lot of these places where Aborigines have chosen to camp are camps that were there before the town."